Waverly Novels: Highland widow. Two drovers, etcA. and C. Black, 1851 |
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Página 89
... living , yet no man hesitates to admit such as true when he has passed from the scene . " " On that subject , " said Zosimus , " I can neither afford your Imperial Majesty relief or protection . If , however , your memory is unjustly ...
... living , yet no man hesitates to admit such as true when he has passed from the scene . " " On that subject , " said Zosimus , " I can neither afford your Imperial Majesty relief or protection . If , however , your memory is unjustly ...
Página 109
... living sepulchre , I pray God to requite you ; and if , under such deceitful pretence , you mean to take my life , I can only commend my soul to Heaven , and the vengeance due to my death to Him who can behold the darkest places in ...
... living sepulchre , I pray God to requite you ; and if , under such deceitful pretence , you mean to take my life , I can only commend my soul to Heaven , and the vengeance due to my death to Him who can behold the darkest places in ...
Página 118
... living together with a decency ever exemplary in people of their rank , had sometimes , on interesting occasions , family debates , in which the husband , provoked by the seeming unbelief of his partner , was tempted to let her guess ...
... living together with a decency ever exemplary in people of their rank , had sometimes , on interesting occasions , family debates , in which the husband , provoked by the seeming unbelief of his partner , was tempted to let her guess ...
Página 125
... living , " said the Cæsar , " induced him to in- voke the dead ? -for Ursel has been no living man for the space of three years . " " It matters not , " said Anna Comnena ; " I tell you true . My father even now held conference with a ...
... living , " said the Cæsar , " induced him to in- voke the dead ? -for Ursel has been no living man for the space of three years . " " It matters not , " said Anna Comnena ; " I tell you true . My father even now held conference with a ...
Página 149
... living rock . But Heaven cured me of so foolish an idea ; and if I did not actually come to love Alexius Comnenus - for how could that have been a possible effect in any rational state of my intellects ? -yet as I became convinced of my ...
... living rock . But Heaven cured me of so foolish an idea ; and if I did not actually come to love Alexius Comnenus - for how could that have been a possible effect in any rational state of my intellects ? -yet as I became convinced of my ...
Términos y frases comunes
abbot Achilles Tatius Agelastes alarm Alexius Comnenus ancient Anna Comnena answered appearance archer arms Aymer de Valence Bertha Bertram Blacquernal Bohemond Brenhilda Cæsar called CASTLE DANGEROUS Castle of Douglas combat command Constantinople Count of Paris Count Robert Countess crusaders danger daughter death degree Dickson Douban Douglas Castle Douglasses duty Emperor English knight eyes Fabian faithful father favour fear garrison Godfrey governor Greek Greek fire guard hand hath heard Heaven Hereward honour horse Immortal Guards Imperial John de Walton lady lance look Lord Lord of Douglas matter ment methinks minstrel Nicephorus Briennius noble occasion pass Patriarch person present Prince Tancred Princess purpose rendered replied respect Robert of Paris Saint Bride Saxon Scottish seemed Sir Aymer Sir John Sir Knight soldier supposed thaim thee thine thou art tion traitor trust Ursel Varangian Varangian guard voice word XLVII young knight youth
Pasajes populares
Página 363 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 124 - And ye shall be betrayed, both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends ; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Página 363 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, 425 The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 167 - Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom they influenced, fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were filled with the unusual and outrageous noise, while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air.